Mundus Emblematicus: Studies in Neo-Latin Emblem Books Tapa dura - 2004

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Brepols Publishers, 2003. 1st. hardcover. New. 105x18x152.

Turnhout Brepols 2003. Hardback, XVI+384 p., 160 x 235 mm. ISBN 9782503512020. The thirteen articles in this volume deal with the Neo-Latin emblem book after the birth of the genre with Andrea Alciato?s Emblematum libellus (1531). While the interest in emblematics has grown considerably during the last decades, the seminal Neo-Latin production has received relatively little attention. In Mundus Emblematicus an international team of experts in the field makes this part of the emblem tradition accessible to a broad scholarly audience. The articles cover a variety of emblem books published at the time, ranging from influential humanist collections (for instance those by Achille Bocchi, Hadrianus Junius, or Joachim Camerarius) to alchemist (Michael Maier) or religious emblems (such as the books of the Calvinist Theodere de Beze, or the Jesuit Herman Hugo). In each paper subjects dealt with include the historical context of the work and its makers, the relation between word and image, the structure of the… Leer más

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